Senyol

Senyol
If you live in central Cape Town, you’ll surely have noticed the overhead wires festooned with little painted wooden blocks, or you may have come across a tree with decorated parcel tags hanging like paper fruit. Chances are, these charming decorations of our public space are the work of Senyol.

At the Neighbourgoods Night Market on Friday night, Senyol had set up a little desk and was selling his hand-cut Christmas cards, as well as some of his paintings on paper and on plywood.
I became sufficiently light-headed to buy this very looong painting on plywood, called No more Ashes.

Here’s a detail:

And here it lives, with a horse and a crocodile, until we get it framed:
Keep up to date with Senyol’s painting and drawing work at his blog, and keep checking out his flickr page too, for his streets work, sketchbooks, design and other brill stuff he gets up to.

Next up (soon, I hope), a Senyol Etsy shop!